Need Help!!

hi guys....i'm hoping someone here can help me out, i've tried everything short of selling my soul to the apple guys.
yesterday after a restart my mac locked me out of the administrator account turns out there was overlapping data on the HD. i fixed it through the single user mode but ever since then most of the applications i use freeze after 10 minutes or so (Azereus, transmission, disk utility, disk warrior) my life has come to a halt.

you might try to re-link your applications. Open up the terminal, and enter this exactly as shown:

sudo update_prebinding -root / -force

hit enter

it'll ask for your admin password, so type that in and hit enter.

after it's done (you'll know it is when the prompt returns), restart the machine.

a brief (very simple) explanation:
your applications don't load all the related files they need all at once, so a lot of those files are "linked" to the applications. It could be that your apps are crashing because they're having a hard time establishing the link to the files they need in order to run properly i.e. they just can't find them. Updating the prebinding will re-establish the links so your apps will know where to look.

it may or may not help, but it's worth a shot.

also, if you haven't done it yet, run disk utility and verify/repair permissions. And you might also want to reset the PRAM.

thing is i've tries booting up in safe mode and tried booting from the cd tp repair disk everything works fine but when i try and reboot into multi user mode and run applications like disk utility it freezes up. application stops responding i end up force quiting it and restarting the system. have done it atleast 20 times since yesterday.

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hmmm...that could be my fault. I haven't run this command in some time, and I remember being asked for a password, but its entirely possible I'm mistaken.

at any rate, did you run the command? How'd it work?

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You've got the command correct, and it definitely should ask for a password...I'm not sure why it's not. It should take a few minutes to run, so if it's immediately giving a prompt after entering it, it's not working.

Guyz thanks to all the help i got here....i've done it. Finally it's running like it should (fingers crossed) no freezes in last 2 hours. turns out one of the external hard disk had bad sectors on it any time the system tried to use that paticular hd it would freeze. formatted the sucker and everything seems to be back to normal. I really appreciate what you guyz have done for me thanks.

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